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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. SwayDB vs. Tarantool

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.comswaydb.simer.auwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guideswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationSimer PlahaVK
Initial release20192010201220182008
Current release7.1.1, June 20192.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnononostring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptnoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoAtomic execution of operationsACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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